Pop Up Pizza partner and chef Michael Vakneen (photos by Justin Yurkanin)

Ever since the Plaza Hotel and Casino reopened in September with trendy restaurants and swanky new furniture, I have actively encouraged people to call it the Plasmo. Why? Because the refurbished downtown establishment opened on the heels of the Cosmopolitan and appeared to be [...]

Web guru and Greenspun Interactive editor Rob Curley is officially leaving the Las Vegas Sun. He joined the company in 2008, after riding a professional juggernaut all the way from Lawrence, Kansas to the Washington Post. He is best-known as an evangelist of “hyperlocal” journalism that focused on things like high school football and restaurant [...]

Sacha Baron Cohen in "The Dictator"

In The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen plays a fish out of water, acclimating himself to American culture and offending everyone in sight while he does it. You could begin that sentence with, “In Borat,” or “In Bruno,” and not make any other changes. Therein lies the problem with The Dictator: [...]